This first-of-its-kind tutorial on military displays begins with a discussion of fundamentals and leads to an understanding of how displays used by the U.S. Armed Forces differ from their counterparts in the civil sector. Advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, beginning display industry professionals, or anyone who wants to know about display fundamentals with an eye to military applications and the military market will benefit from the detailed information herein. In a simple building-block approach, fundamental concepts such as the lumen, luminous intensity, and illuminance are reviewed, and the author progresses with a discussion of the many display technologies, such as CRT, AMLCD, and AMOLED, as well as display subcomponents, such as backlights, polarizers, and dimming circuitry, before ending with an exposition of the military market itself. The latter includes an identification of performance parameter values, not only for the broad arena of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, but also tracked and wheeled vehicles, dismounted soldiers, and command and control facilities. Military Displays: Technology and Applications gives the reader insight to the more than 647 line-replaceable units for display used by these categories of platforms in the U.S. military today.

5.5.4.3 Summary of research development test and evaluation support complex satellite operations

Appendix A Symbols, Abbreviations, and Acronyms

Appendix B Glossary of Military Equipment

References

Index

Preface

This text requires little or no prior knowledge of displays by the reader and
only a brief knowledge in the sciences. Therefore, it begins by discussing the
fundamentals, commencing with a definition of the lumen, and develops other key
concepts such as luminous flux, luminous density, contrast, and gray levels. Every
effort has been made to present a simple building-block approach that allows the
inter-relation and solidity of these terms to be well understood.

Examples of the many existing display technologies in fielded military systems
are discussed, including fading technologies such as cathode ray tubes (CRTs),
but also and especially advancing technologies such as active matrix liquid
crystal displays (AMLCDs) and active matrix organic light-emitting diodes
(AMOLEDs). These discussions are then followed by a look at major display
device subcomponents: backlights, polarizers, dimming circuitry, diffusers, lightenhancement filters, color filters, etc.

In Chapter 4, military platform categories and groups are outlined, as these
set a basis for design parameters. Fundamental display characteristics are defined
(e.g., size, direct or virtual view, head-up or head-down display, low or high
information content), further delineating displays, regardless of platform. Design
class is included as a way of looking at Department of Defense (DoD) displays
according to investment dollars and industrial base.

A major thrust of this tutorial is an overview of the military display market itself,
including performance parameter tables for fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, tracked
and wheeled vehicles, dismounted soldiers and downed pilots, and command and
control (C2) facilities. Included are a number of other tables that lay out more
generalized trends in the DoD market, e.g., display size as a percentage of DoD
market share, defense display market by technology, defense display market by
design class, and identification of vanishing vendor and aging technologies by DoD
platform group.

The reader will benefit from this work by gaining a working knowledge of
display fundamentals as well as broad insight into the strength and vigor of the
DoD display market.With more than 640 weapon-system platforms and 1,200,000
force-projection displays, the DoD display arena is indeed a rather large and
growing niche market.